Moçanfaneira, Torres Vedras (Jurassic of Portugal)

Where: Centro, Portugal (39.1° N, 9.3° W: paleocoordinates 33.3° N, 0.9° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Freixial Formation, Middle Tithonian (150.8 - 145.0 Ma)

• from a "transition zone" between the Sobral and Freixial Formations, Lourinhá Group; in the highest part of the Everticyclammina virguliana Biozone (probably now the Arranho Mb.)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; fine-grained, micaceous sandstone and marl

• "deposited in an aquatic setting of little depth (floodplain) and low energy"
• "The predominant lithology of the area is an association of fine-grained micaceous sandstones and marl beds of continental origin in which carbonized plant remains are common"

Size class: macrofossils

Collected by D. L. Antunes in 1995-1996

Collection methods: surface (float), surface (in situ), mechanical,

Primary reference: F. Escaso, F. Ortega, P. Dantas, E. Malafaia, B. Silva and J. L. Sanz. 2007. Elementos postcraneales de Dacentrurus (Dinosauria: Stegosauria) del Jurásico Superior de Moçanfaneira (Torres Vedras, Portugal) [Postcranial elements of Dacentrurus (Dinosauria: Stegosauria) from the Upper Jurassic of Moçanfaneira (Torres Vedras, Portugal)]. In Cantera Paleontológica, Diputación Provincial de Cuenca, Cuenca, Spain 157-172 [M. Carrano/M. Carrano]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 74502: authorized by Matthew Carrano, entered by Matthew Carrano on 08.08.2007

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Taxonomic list

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Reptilia
 Ornithischia - Stegosauridae
Dacentrurus armatus
Dacentrurus armatus Marsh 1877 ornithischian
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